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Subject: Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs
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Hi Oliver,


>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>> 'cmp' still says the files are different.

> Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:
>> Actually UTF-8 still has that problem with composed vs. decomposed
>> characters.  There is no perfect system AFAIK.

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
> Do you refer to the fact here that a character like, say, U+00E9
> (LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE) is equivalent to U+0065 followed
> by U+0301 (LATIN SMALL LETTER E followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT)?

Yes.

> So AFAIK UTF-16 is meant as a space-efficient format for East Asian
> text.

That and compatibility.  The first Unicode versions talked much about
the 16-bit representation and the most wide-spread users (Windows NT,
COM, VFAT, HFS+) implemented it like that.


benny